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...deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment...
...wife Jill, who have four cats and two dogs. Last Friday, after McClellan?s last formal briefing, he was feted by the small group of reporters whose work spaces are in the White House basement. They have their own informal civic association, and busted out the seven-layer dip, champagne and cookies that said "Scott...
Intramural dodgeball competitors last Saturday were treated to an afternoon dip in a pool—a pool filled with nippy, green gelatin, that is. The Campus Life Committee (CLC) combined two college classics—intramural sports and Jell-O wrestling—to create “Slippery When Wet,” a spring water event held in between games of the House Intramural Dodgeball Tournament last weekend in the Malkin Athletic Center Quad. The event featured inflatable water slides and a pool brimming with lime Jell-O set up on the sidelines of the dodgeball courts...
...perceived problems, the GED's popularity persists, and it's not clear that there are better alternatives on the horizon. The number of test takers took a dip after the test was redesigned in 2002, but has been rising ever since. But even the makers of the GED say that its success is in many ways a sad statement on the ability of schools to keep students. As the ACE's Schaefer puts it, "We always say how wonderful it would be, how delighted we'd be, if we could close the door on the GED because students are staying...
...Mumbai on Friday, March 24.The return on investment could be substantial, Summers said, noting that over the last decade, the average university endowment in the U.S. achieved a real return close to 10 percent.Since countries’ central banks are bound to draw political flak when their investments dip, Summers instead suggested that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank back the creation of an “international facility” to invest those assets.“It is an irony of our times that the majority of the world’s poorest people now live...